Joy as rebelling
Joy can be your rebellious response to the insanity and injustices of life.
:- Doug.
Archive for May, 2021
A most dangerous thing
The human mind is a most dangerous thing.
Steeped over 300 years, a most dangerous thing.
:- Doug.
Whole group clearness?
What if the whole group were the focus of the clearness committee? What questions do we ask of one another? What questions do we ask of us?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2042–Asks a book
Footprints in the Windsm # 2042
It matters what one asks a book.
Please pass it on.
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Baking bread together
If we are prevented by space-time from breaking bread together, perhaps we can busy ourselves baking bread together—and sneak a bite off the loaf.
:- Doug.
First offering to strangers
Hospitality is the first offering to every stranger. What can that mean for us here and now?
:- Doug.
Mutual clearness committee
One thing we can do with “our” grandchild is to convene a mutual clearness committee, after the manner of Friends.
:- Doug.
Trade letters
Write a letter to someone in the 11th generation. Now trade letters with another and read it as if you were the one receiving it. Talk it out together.
:- Doug.
choose based on imagination
One of the most important things we can give a young person is the skill to choose based upon imagination, curiosity, and any other lasting pull. The skill to distinguish a love for tanks or politics of the moment from what can take more than a lifetime to fulfill.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2041–How you use curiosity
Footprints in the Windsm # 2041
Your great grandchildren make it possible for you to be alive. You are rooted in these. For where and who you issue from is less important than where you’re headed, what kind of curiosity you have, and how you use it.
Please pass it on.
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How to murder grandchildren
How to murder grandchildren. (By putting them into the category of “People who mean nothing to me.”)
:- Doug.
Agreeing’s no fun
Where is it written that any two people ought to agree? What would be the fun?
:- Doug.
Where do you want them to want to go?
Who are your spiritual ancestors? In what did they excel? Travel, poetry, romantic love, ecstasy, exploring? Who then will be your spiritual great grandchildren? Where do you want them to want to go, those who are your next?
:- Doug.
Ingenious theirs
What’s your ingenious way to engage your grandchildren in thinking of theirs?
:- Doug.
Each says a surprise
Write a dialogue in which what each says is a surprise to each of them and to you.
:- Doug.
